On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 1:42 PM Berry, Charles <ccberry@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Matt,
>
> This seems like a good use case for a `derived-backend'.
>
> You can use  `org-export-define-derived-backend' with 'hugo as the parent,
> define a :menu-entry to add an export action for your custom export to the
> hugo menu using '?m' (say) as the key.
>
> Then
>
>         C-c C-e H m
>
> will export using your custom variant of hugo.
>
> :-) I'm trying to use the variable to determine whether I export with hugo
or with my hugo-reveal franken-backend:
https://github.com/titaniumbones/ox-huveal . So my preference is to
evaluate the variable BEFORE export begins.

I guess another option is to just set a buffer-local variable in the file,
or use #+FILETAGS: and hack htings that way. I'm not sure what the most
sustainable & org-like method relaly is...



>
> HTH,
>
> Chuck
>
>
> > On Aug 2, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to streamline some veyr ad-hoc workflows I have. One thing I
> do a lot during the school year is make some changes to an org source file,
> and then export to hugo markdown with ox-hugo, and finally commit to git
> (after that I have a git hook that generates the website & uploads the
> changed pages to the appropriate location, usually a github-pages branch or
> separate repo).
> >
> > So I have this code:
> >
> > (defun mwp-hugo-export-and-release ()
> >   "Make it faster and easier to put my lectures up on the website."
> >   (interactive)
> >
> >   (let* ((modfile (org-hugo-export-wim-to-md))
> >          (basedir (plist-get  (org-export-get-environment 'hugo)
> ':hugo-base-dir ))
> >          (default-directory (expand-file-name basedir)))
> >     (magit-stage-file modfile)
> >     ;; (magit-status)
> >     (magit-commit-create)
> >     )  )
> >
> > It works great, I'm very happy. HOWEVER: in my websites I have two kinds
> of outputs:
> >
> > - regular pages -- these get exported to .md files and turned into html
> by hugo
> > - lecture notes -- these get exported to reveal.js HTML pages by
> org-re-reveal and my hugo theme treats them differently .
> >
> > I would really like to set a switch somewhere in the file, something
> like:
> >
> > #+MWP_EXPORT_TYPE: slides
> >
> > And then something like
> >
> > let* ((modfile (if (eq :mwp-export-type "slides")
> (mwp-hugo-reveal-custom-export-function)
> >                                (org-hugo-export-wim-to-md)))
> >      ....etc)
> >             do stuff)
> >
> >
> > But I'm not sure how to get access to a totally non-standard option like
> the kind I just invented in that last bit of pseudo-code. Anyone have a
> good suggestion?
> >
> > Thank you as always!
> >
> > Matt
>
>
>